Midtown Walmart Foes File Appeal

With a special permit in hand, Walmart seems to be well on its way to finally plopping a superstore right in the middle of midtown. But now a group of anti-Walmart activists has filed an appeal claiming the City of Miami should have never approved the permit.

"Walmart's plan would spoil a $170 million community investment in midtown Miami," Grant Stern, spokesman for NoWalmartinMidtown.com, said in a statement. "Walmart has made an end run around important local regulations and obtained a flawed approval for their Super Center... We must stand up for rule of law in our community today, or we'll wind up with more architectural disasters like this proposed Walmart littering our landscape."